Flora’s Guide to a Second Chance at Love and Life

The host finished speaking, and the announcer's voice chimed in: "Next up, please welcome the dance performance by the third-year Medical Department class."

"Didn't you all just do a group dance? Find someone who's good at it to go on stage," the host said, clearly anxious.

Good or not, they couldn't leave the stage empty.

Eilies was in a panic. The background music had to be preloaded onto the computer, and finding someone at the last minute to perform with the original music was impossible. No one else knew the dance Cynthia was supposed to do.

They couldn't possibly go without music... That would be beyond awkward.

No one was stepping up, and the crowd was starting to murmur. The faculty members exchanged puzzled looks, not sure what was going on.

"I'll go on stage. You go find the sound engineer and tell him to cut the music," Flora said decisively, heading towards the entrance.

was already on stage. She didn't have time to think and quickly did as Flora asked, telling the sound engineer to turn off

up there?" Cynthia whispered, peeking from behind the curtain with wide eyes. Eilies came over,

announced, so there was no time to cancel. Flora

as well have sent you instead!" Cynthia exclaimed. Flora's dancing was pretty average-nothing spectacular, she just didn't make

a disaster. Even if it was, she'd still cheer for Flora. After all, Flora

stood tall on stage. Flora's reputation at the University of Maple Grove was

exactly stellar. Top of her class nationally, but also a notorious troublemaker who'd send people to the hospital over the slightest disagreement. Crossing her never

for them? The crowd was a mix of horrified and intrigued, with

This evening was turning out

Richard and the other teachers watched curiously, eager to see